Are there any ways that religion works to enhance or decrease a nations economic health.?

Answer 1

posibly....

Answer 2

Funny how religion and money seem to be inexplicably tied isn't it? I'd say it should never go as far as encouraging the basic concepts of honesty and compassion when possible. Then you have the parable where the master gives his servants a certain amount of money to hold for him. the first two invest and get promoted. the third freaks over the responsibility and buries it. ( the master is pissed he didn't even get interest from savings on it) and gets fired for not having the guts to TRY and also not having the guts to admit it if he had failed. The master even admits had he tried to invest and failed he'd have kept his job for making the effort.
So even Jesus has no problems with making money, but the real point is to use the gifts we have which include business and wealth building. They're is definately a moral guideline in using them.


Vin

Answer 3

The government controls the church by lying. many Christians have been programmed to believe they need to support government and to believe it;s lies. In the USA we were taught that marijuana would kill us and make us crazy and make us kill others. So hemp was criminalized along with marijuana. This keeps from producing Bio fuel, Food, Medicine, Paper, Clothes, The list goes on. Farmers are begging the government to allow hemp. It produces more per acre that cotton. its easy er to grow than cotton. It can be grown through out the US and could save our economy. But many voting Christians still believe the lies they have been taught. so they vote against a plant that is used thought the world. What a shame. It's Satan's deception that wont last forever.

Answer 4

"The level of atheism throughout the rest of the developed world refutes any argument that religion is somehow a moral necessity. Countries like Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on Earth. According to the United Nations’ Human Development Report (2005) they are also the healthiest, as indicated by measures of life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate and infant mortality.

Conversely, the 50 nations now ranked lowest in terms of human development are unwaveringly religious. Other analyses paint the same picture: The United States is unique among wealthy democracies in its level of religious literalism and opposition to evolutionary theory; it is also uniquely beleaguered by high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, STD infection and infant mortality.

The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious superstition and hostility to evolutionary theory, are especially plagued by the above indicators of societal dysfunction, while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European norms."

How's that strike you?

Answer 5

Yes - There is a whole branch of Economics related to the study of just this question... It is called the Economics of Religion. There have been quite a few papers written on various aspects of this question. If you are really interested I can possibly email you a list of the papers. =)

Answer 6

Lord Hailsham who held office of first Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Education, Minister of science and Technology, a member of the Queens council and served two periods as Lord High Chancelor wrote "Our whole system of education, public and private, our network of hospitals,our social security system have a clear origin in Christian foundations.

Answer 7

Sort of. Look for Max Webers thesis "The Puritan Ethic". He essentially summarized that the Puritan beliefs against laziness helped to form a Capitalistic society in America. They believed every thing they will do was important, and that all righteous things you do will be rewarded, so they constantly kept working, doing good in society, etc.

Answer 8

decrease the nations economic heath by bleeding the country dry of money and giveing it to the churches

Answer 9

Absolutely - and vice versa. When a religion talks about the end of the world coming soon, those who believe it don't save their money, they keep it in circulating in the economy. When a government talks about the end of the world, people go to the churches.

Peace!

Answer 10

many ways they decrease, no ways they increase. For example they are tax free organizations, meaning the government makes no money off of religious organizations. Instead, the government SPENDS money on these organizations (faith based initiatives).

In fact, I challenge ANYONE to explain ONE way that religion enhances a nation's economic health....just ONE.

t-man....you can't be serious.

Answer 11

Religion is a parasite, that weakens every nations economy.